Boy in a Red Waistcoat

What you see

A standing boy, seen down to the knees, fills nearly the whole canvas. He wears a reddish-brown hat, a light shirt, a blue tie and a red waistcoat. One hand rests on his hip, so the elbow juts out to the left, while the other arm hangs at his side. Heavy curtains hang behind him, and the back of a chair peeks in at lower left.

The red of the waistcoat glows among blues, grays and ochres. The forms are built from flat patches of color and dark lines that mark the edges, as in the sleeve and the curtains. Seek out the blue sash at his waist and for the pattern of green leaves on the curtain at left.